I think one more important factor in the fluctuations of sales is the inertia of the existing fleet: aircraft age slowly, and the market for new ones may not pick up until used ones are taken out of operation. This was exactly the case with 19-seat turboprops like Twin Otter, Do228, L410, etc. – production nearly stopped for a number of years until the natural attrition brought the existing fleet below a certain threshold, and then new series of all the three were released almost simultaneously.
Alexis,
That was me!
Yes, me too. When I restarted my flying in 2009 and discovered how the prices had collapsed, I all of a sudden found that I could now afford a 150 kt Mooney when I had been looking for a Cherokee 140 or the likes. What an opportunity! And I did buy it from someone who replaced it with a brand new SR22. So one more reason to be happy about Cirrus, without it he would have probably kept my plane 
Valerio
thanks for your post. Very interesting details.
I knew of Prof Pascale from the times of the Partenavia Twin, the likeliness between it and the Tecnam Twin is certainly no accident. I had the chance of flying one briefly during an airshow a few years back and found it tight but quite nice to fly. It is certainly a quite unique “light twin” and as you say exactly what many schools were and are looking for.
A friend here owns a P2002JF and loves it. I’d have to say, 17 liters Mogas per hour and 120 kts does make sense, it is however a little short on payload.
The P2010 looks quite interesting too for clubs and others who are actually thinking Cessna 172 but would love to fly Rotax due to the Mogas option, apart from the pricing which seems to be cheaper.
We will see how Tecnam fare. They have grown quite a bit (have not found any sales figures from them, but I’d expect them to have sold considerably in the time frame) so they do have a base for continuation, if they halfways do it right.
Best regards
Urs
I don’t think you can use a p92 for ppl flight training in the UK can anyone confirm?
Why not? So long as it’s the certified VLA version? Certainly can in Sweden.
